The
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100 Club DrawWe now know the lucky winners of our March 100 draw. Congratulations
to Steve Whitcombe, Richard Lucas and Mary Creese who each win £25.
Your cheques will be in the post shortly.

Cubs visit Mayor's Parlour

Each year all of the Cub Scouts who have achieved their
top award, the Chief Scouts Award (Silver) receive an invite with their
families to attend a special presentation at the Mayor's Parlour in Havant.
During the afternoon, they were presented with a special certificate in
recognition of their achievement, followed by a light buffet. This is
always a special and proud afternoon for the Cubs and their families.
The photograph shows the Hayling bunch with their certificates, many of
whom are now in Scouts.

Then it was the Beavers TurnJust 1 week later the event was repeated for Hayling's Beavers
who had achieved their Chief Scouts Award Bronze awards. Unfortunately
I do not have a photograph at this time to show their smiling faces!

Authentic Indian Evening a Great Success

Many thanks to those of you who joined in with our evening
of authentic Indian food. The feedback received (which matches my own
view) is that the meal was excellent for both quality and quantity and
we are very grateful to the Desai family for their kind offer and superb
results! In addition we made over £350 profit for our Safety and
Security project.

Saturn Parents Join in the Fun!?

The leaders of Saturn pack invited parents to join for
the evening and maybe unexpected to many, this meant they had to join
in with the games and activities.

Nearly every Cub had a parent joining in with activities
such as building a framework from paper, canes and elastic bands that
will take the weight of a cup of water and various games.

The photograph shows the parents in competition with
the Cubs for a relay of "dribble football".

Scouts take part in Cooking Competition

Scouts from both Lions and Eagle Troop took part in the
Havant District Cooking competition, held at the Hayling HQ recently.

The Hayling patrols finished 3rd and 4th but the quality
and innovation all menus was outstanding. An example of a menu, from Eagle
Troop was:-

First Course: Melon with Prawns
Main Course: Sweet and Sour Chicken with Noodles
Desert: Pineapple Alaska

With the exception of the Noodles everything else was made from fresh
ingredients and the judges were impressed with the patrols use of a
"blow torch" for the meringue on the pineapple alaska.

Well done to both troops.

RNLI Certificate Presented
to Saturn Pack

The Hayling branch of the RNLI presented this certificate
to the members of Saturn Cub Pack as a thank you for the money raised
at their Bring and Buy sale recently. A larger print can be found on our
website whilst the original hangs proudly in the HQ.

Aspen Beavers take part in a Science Day

Beavers from Aspen colony joined with others from Havant
in a science and experimentation day. The Beavers visited various bases
to try out various experiments including how Airplanes fly (no not real
ones!), making electrical circuits, origami, water based experiments and
playing with robots. A great day was had by all (and the Leaders and parents
who joined in!).

Please keep your used stamps

Don't forget we are now collecting used stamps for the
RNLI. This is one of our "helping others" campaigns for this
year.

Just bring them to the HQ and leave them in the box in
the reception area.

Alistair & Jorden
take part in World Jamboree Selection Weekend.

The next World Scout Jamboree will take place in the
UK to celebrate 100 years of Scouting. Alistair Harris of Lion Troop and
Jorden Reed of Nexus Explorers recently took part in a special training
and assessment weekend from which the final 72 participants from Hampshire
will be selected.

Alistair and Jorden had a great weekend taking part in
different projects and activities with over 130 Hampshire Scouts but now
have to wait to see if they are lucky enough to be invited to join the
Jamboree contingent. Fingers crossed!!

Make Scouting Fashionable Again
!!

At a reception hosted by the Chairman of Hampshire County
Council, our County Commissioner Dick Whittington said that one of his
objectives is to "Make Scouting Fashionable!

I like this phrase, not for the young people we would
wish to attract but for those of us adults, whether it be Leaders or Parents
or Friends.

After all fashion is never designed, it results from
everyone talking about something in a positive way.

So lets all talk Scouting up for what it can offer young
people and perhaps together we can make it "cool" for young
people to join.

If we succeed then who knows what we will all be wearing
next year!

Lions Club Walk

The Hayling Scouts will once again be taking part in
the "Round Langstone" walk organised by the Hayling and Portsmouth
Lions Club. The data of this walk is Sunday 21st May 2006 and we hope
to see all members of the group taking part.

Sponsorship forms and more details will be published
soon but please make a note of the date.